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Humble Pie, Coming Right Up - Blessed Is She

Humble Pie, Coming Right Up

Y’all know the heaving sobs. The kind that take over your body because the pain is so great. The error so grave. The betrayal so palpable. They rock you and...
July 15, 2017
Don't Be Afraid to Share Your Struggle - Blessed Is She

Don't Be Afraid to Share Your Struggle

“You will be given at that moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." (Matthew...
July 14, 2017
Found, But Never Lost - Blessed Is She

Found, But Never Lost

Growing up, I would often hear the same few stories from my parents. They were the go-to stories. You know the ones. The stories that are brought out and dusted...
July 13, 2017
Things Mother Teresa Never Actually Said - Blessed Is She

Things Mother Teresa Never Actually Said

There is a widely quoted Saint Teresa of Calcutta saying that goes, “If you want to bring peace to the whole world, go home and love your family.” It’s a...
July 12, 2017
What's Your Revolution? - Blessed Is She

What's Your Revolution?

Much ink has been spilled this year over "the Benedict Option," Rod Dreher's sweeping cultural assessment adjuring Christians to create and invest in life-giving physical communities and to dig down...
July 11, 2017
Scraped Knees and Broken Hearts - Blessed Is She

Scraped Knees and Broken Hearts

For many years I was the queen of diminish and dismiss. My friends lauded me for my ability to forgive and continue in relationships with people who had hurt me....
July 10, 2017
We Go in Many Directions and He Is With Us - Blessed Is She

We Go in Many Directions and He Is With Us

Yesterday, I sat on my porch singing into my phone as a dear friend sat on her couch strumming her guitar and leading me in worship. She offered this missionary...
July 09, 2017
Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else - Blessed Is She

Pretend Our Way into Being Someone Else

With our modern eyes it can be so easy to see the story of Jacob and Esau and think it somehow pedestrian and almost silly in how easily Issac can...
July 08, 2017
Calling All the Sinners - Blessed Is She

Calling All the Sinners

If you ever have the privilege to wander around Rome, you will undoubtedly stumble across a Caravaggio. The city is littered with paintings by the Baroque master. His use of...
July 07, 2017
Sometimes I'm the Paralytic - Blessed Is She

Sometimes I'm the Paralytic

I am often paralyzed by my sin. I am very good at hiding it with my busy-ness. I couldn’t possibly be paralyzed if I am working all these jobs and...
July 06, 2017
Beauty from Messes - Blessed Is She

Beauty from Messes

Sarah was old and had always been barren so, according to the customs of the time, she told her husband to take her slave as a concubine, that he may...
July 05, 2017
Falling into the Storm - Blessed Is She

Falling into the Storm

Why am I terrified, Lord? Because I don’t know the way from here to the ending. I don’t know what fills the pages of my life between the mess of...
July 04, 2017